Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan & Jeremy Salter
Bristol Park Books, 2011
Fast read with some interesting background. A number of side bar comments with tid bits of info. Well referenced with lots of suggested reading for more info on the individuals selected.
The book is a brief listing of what the authors decided, using a number of carefully explained criteria (the ones they wanted to!), were the 101 characters of fiction that have had the greatest affect on society. Lumped together in what they admit to be vague and arbitrary groupings, they are sometimes divided by brief humorous interludes.
I found it an enjoyable read and learned a great deal of miscellany. And I laughed at some of the lawyer jokes. The short snippets are informative and thought provoking.
Roughly paperback sized.
317 Pages
Purchased on sale - Barnes & Noble
This reprint edition is pretty good, though there is a notable paragraph repeat in the middle of the G.I. Joe essay.
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In addition to the GI Joe repeated paragraph, does your copy do something freaky right after that? From pages 144-145, my copy says, "The twelve-inch doll went out of [page break] had almost two hundred Joe characters..." I was wondering how to get this feedback to the publisher and/or authors, but Google didn't yield anything. Thanks.
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